La arquitectura de la tragedia aristotélica en La casa de Bernarda Alba de Federico García Lorca was a theoretical investigation into how Lorca reconstructs Aristotelian tragedy in a modern, secular register. Developed as my senior thesis, the project read the play as a “Greek tragedy without gods,” arguing that Lorca displaces divine necessity with social fatalism: honor, gender discipline, silence, and the internalized codes that govern communal life.

The thesis traced how Lorca adheres to classical unities while stripping the tragic form of its metaphysical foundations. In doing so, he reveals that the machinery of inevitability—hamartia, anagnorisis, peripeteia, and catharsis—can emerge not only from a divine order but from the pressures of custom and culture. Bernarda becomes the executor of a secular fatalism; Adela becomes the figure who tests whether freedom remains possible within a world structured by repression rather than destiny.

This project allowed me to bring together literary analysis, philosophy, and dramatic theory. Full text is available upon request.